The Amazing Race Asia Season 2 hosted by Allan Wu has 2 Philippine teams competing for the plum prize of US$100,000. In fact, the season’s first pit stop was in Fort Santiago, Manila, Philippines. The Pit Stop greeter here is former senator, Joey Lina. I am currently watching this season as opposed to the first which i did not. The filming took place sometime in June or July 2007.

The Philippine leg is ok but it concentrated more in the City of Manila and in Pila, Laguna ( similar to The Amazing Race Season 5). The season started in Singapore with a bang by the teams having to cross two high rise buildings and back! Then it was the Manila, Philippines announcement as to the next destination. I felt proud because the teams who came from different countries were truly delighted as they read their “clue” that their next destination is here in Manila.

The two Filipino teams are model Marc Nelson and Rovilson Fernandez, dubbed as “Best Buddies”. Marc Nelson is one of the hosts of the Philippine sports-oriented show Sports Unlimited on ABS-CBN network while his teammate, Rovilson Fernandez, is one of the hosts of another sports-oriented show, Gameplan and an executive editor of Maxim magazine’s Philippine edition. The other Filipino team is Terri ( Pinay Marketer,lol, as in palengkera, shouts at her husband like there’s no tomorrow )and Henry Reed ( an African-American, Henry Reed is one of two non-Asians participating in The Amazing Race Asia 2, he is a retired United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer, now residing in the Philippines ), they are tagged as ” Married 13 Years.”

Henry seems to love the Philippines much since he calls the Philippines “home” and can be heard singing “The Spaghetti Song” by the Sexbomb Dancers. Terri and Henry are from Cebu and are even wearing the Philippine flag on their shirts.

And I thought that Marc Nelson is not really Filipino ? Although i find him nice naman as he says po and opo to old folks and can be heard saying Maraming Salamat po too. I can’t say the same for Rovilson Fernandez who unquestionably is Filipino, however he acts or say otherwise, i don’t know but he rubs me the wrong way, he’s just too brash.

BTW, contestant Brett is hot, too bad he and partner was eliminated. The Amzing Race Asia 2 is shown exclusively in AXN. Oh and there are great prizes to be won if you avidly watch the show.